April 2026

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Rabbit Holes Apr 5 The profound pleasures of simple things

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Rabbit Holes Apr 4 AI diffusion can't and won't be rapid

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Rabbit Holes Apr 4 Alexis de Tocqueville on despotism

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Rabbit Holes Apr 4 Code is cheap

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Rabbit Holes Apr 4 Externalizing the cost of war

August 2025

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Paper Lanterns Aug 15 Tryst with destiny

August 1964

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Paper Lanterns Aug 10 On the Happy Life The happy man is one whose reason recommends to him every act. The wise man's soul ought to be such as would be proper for a god—uplifted, fearless, and greater than his troubles.

March 1964

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Paper Lanterns Mar 10 On Taking One's Own Life Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. The willing, destiny guides them. The unwilling, destiny drags them.

June 1963

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Paper Lanterns Jun 15 On Master and Slave They are slaves, people declare. Nay, rather they are men. Slaves, you say. Nay, comrades. Slaves, you insist. Nay, they are unpretentious friends.

April 1963

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Paper Lanterns Apr 16 Letter from Birmingham Jail I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the eighth-century prophets left their little villages and carried their 'thus saith the Lord' far beyond the boundaries of their hometowns, and j...